Market data
Eye care practices in Idaho: market data
We count 256 eye care practices with a Idaho address in the federal provider registry. Last checked August 26, 2026.
- Eye care practices counted
- 256in a population of 1,893,296
- ZIP codes with at least one eye care practice
- 70
- Eye care practices with a website
- 64%163 of 256
- Open Saturday or Sunday
- 14%22 of 157
What stands out
These come out of the numbers rather than from any judgement we made. Each one either compares Idaho with the other states we track or points to something uncommon in the Idaho data itself.
- Median Google rating: 4.9 in Idaho, the highest of the 7 states we measure nationwide.
- Open Saturday or Sunday: 14% in Idaho, below the 35% typical of the 3 other states we measure.
- Half of Idaho's 256 eye care practices sit in 14 of the 70 ZIP codes where any of them are located, 15 of them in 83642 alone.
How Idaho compares
Each bar shows Idaho against the middle value across the other states we measure. A measure with nothing to compare against is left out rather than compared to itself.
Optometry and ophthalmology
Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
Every Idaho market we measure
6 places with at least one eye care practice on record, largest first.
| Place | Eye care practices | Per 100,000 residents | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho Falls | 26 | 39 | 66,672 |
| Meridian | 17 | 13.6 | 124,865 |
| Nampa | 16 | 15.1 | 106,289 |
| Twin Falls | 13 | 24.4 | 53,219 |
| Coeur d'Alene | 12 | 21.6 | 55,558 |
| Caldwell | 10 | 15.8 | 63,465 |
- Eye care practices
- 26
- Per 100,000 residents
- 39
- Population
- 66,672
- Eye care practices
- 17
- Per 100,000 residents
- 13.6
- Population
- 124,865
- Eye care practices
- 16
- Per 100,000 residents
- 15.1
- Population
- 106,289
- Eye care practices
- 13
- Per 100,000 residents
- 24.4
- Population
- 53,219
- Eye care practices
- 12
- Per 100,000 residents
- 21.6
- Population
- 55,558
- Eye care practices
- 10
- Per 100,000 residents
- 15.8
- Population
- 63,465
Change over time
Each point is one measurement of this market. We keep every snapshot rather than overwriting it, so the line reflects the market rather than the last time we happened to look.
- 2026-08-29256
- 2026-08-30256
What we could and could not check
256 eye care practices are in the public records behind this page. 256 of them meet our bar to appear in the directory. Every share above is calculated over the eye care practices we could actually verify, never over the whole market.
Held back for now
- Eye care practices per 100,000 residents
- A per-resident figure for a whole state would imply we have measured every part of it. Our coverage within a state is uneven, so we publish the count and leave the rate to the city pages.
How these numbers were produced
Counts come from public records for every eye care practice in this area, whether or not it appears in our directory. That gap is the point: a directory that reports only on itself tells you nothing you could not see by browsing it.
Per-resident figures use a population of 1,893,296 from the Census Bureau (acs5-2023).
- Provider type comes from the federal registry rather than from what a practice advertises, so a clinic employing both optometrists and ophthalmologists is counted once.
- Nothing here says whether a practice is accepting new patients, how long the wait is, or which vision plans it takes.
- A surgical practice and a single optical shop each count as one.
Where the records come from
- NPPES / NPI Registry — eye-care organizations — 7,415 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.
What each figure means
- Eye care practices counted
- Every eye care practice in the underlying public registry for this area, whether or not it has a profile on this site.
- ZIP codes with at least one eye care practice
- How many distinct ZIP codes in this area have at least one eye care practice in the registry. A low number next to a high count means the eye care practices sit close together.
- Eye care practices with a website
- Share of eye care practices with a working website on record, out of the eye care practices whose contact details we have checked.
- Open Saturday or Sunday
- Share of eye care practices whose published hours include Saturday or Sunday, out of the eye care practices whose hours we have on record.
- Open past 6pm on a weekday
- Share of eye care practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the eye care practices whose hours we have on record.
- Median Google rating
- The middle Google rating among eye care practices that have one. Ratings come from Google and reflect reviewer opinion, not any assessment by this site.
- Median Google reviews
- The middle number of Google reviews among eye care practices that have any. A low median usually means a market of smaller or newer eye care practices.
- Optometry and ophthalmology
- Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
Measured August 30, 2026. The oldest source record behind it was retrieved August 26, 2026.
Use this data
Every figure on this page is available as a CSV, one row per measure, each with the sample it was calculated over. Please cite it as the Idaho market dataset and link back here.